A DISGRACEFUL ACT.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1170, 26 April 1884, Page 1

A DISGRACEFUL ACT.

A cnse of most thoroughly unprincipled conduct on the part of a bridegroom is reported ns having occurred in Welling, ton on Wednesday. Some time ago a young man who had been employed as ■ •leik°in an office in Wellington became acquainted w>th the daughter of a much respected settler in the city. ' After a short time he began to pay her marked attention, and finally proposed to her and was accepted. It is stated that he then represented that, in addition to the income from Ids appointment, he was possessed of considerable landed property in London, and that £II,OOO had bean left to him as legacy. Everything appeared to go on all right, and in dua course the wedding wan fixed to take placa at, the oarents’ house at nine o’clock on Wednesday morning. The bridegroom, ic is said, explained to the young lady and her parents that immediately after the wedding he intended that they should leave for Melbourne, enroute for England to see about his ‘property,’ and ha requested his father-in-law to endorse a hill for £4OO, to provide the necessary funds, but this the father-in law declined to do. Every preparation, however, for die journey was made by the young lady’s parents, her boxes being carefully packed with every requisite for a long voyage. The young man also explained that he had arranged for a clergyman at the hour named, that he had engaged a number of cabs for the occasion, and had secured passages by the Wanaka, leaving for the south in the afternoon. According to information he also actually got labels and addressed the lady’s boxes for the projected voj'age. On Wednesday morning a sumptuous wedding breakfast was duly provided, and the table was very handsomely set out. The guests arrived at the house, but when the appointed hour came there was no appearance of ■abs, clergymen, or bridegroom. When half past ten arrived, and still no signs of these indispensable adjuncts Tver* visible, the suspicions of some of the voting lady’s friends became and ihey proceeded to make investigations. On enquiring at the office where the man oad been employed, they found the only information to be gleaned was that he had been dismissed from his appoimtmen'. and on going to the sh pping office tlmy found that no tickets had been taken up. It is believed that the bridegroom left Wellington by a steamboat on Monday.